Compare the first and the second definitions of aesthetics f

Compare the first and the second definitions of “aesthetics” from Dictionary.com.

Solution

According to Dictionary.com, ‘aesthetics’ is a noun with two definitions explaining the same:

While the first definition only focuses upon the branch of Fine Arts, namely, Philosophy, the meaning of ‘Aesthetics’ is rather centered to an area of specialization or a definite study altogether that deals with the notion of beauty along with various other ways of describing the beauty such as comic in a drama could be beautiful, ugliness of war could beautify the importance peace, etc., and critically examining the same, in the second definition, the statement is a general one that simply defines how the mind and emotion could sense the beauty without relating to any particular branch of study and hence it depicts that this noun also has a universal application. In the second definition, it is more to do with defining a beauty rather than critically examining the same.